State v. Miller

ELMORE, Judge.

On 18 March 2014, an officer during a traffic stop found cocaine in defendant Juan Antonia Miller's pocket. A jury convicted defendant of possessing cocaine. He appealed the resulting judgment, arguing the trial court plainly erred by admitting the cocaine into evidence because it constituted tainted fruit seized during the officer's unlawful traffic-stop search; alternatively, defendant argued, if we determined his Fourth Amendment arguments were not preserved for appellate review, he received IAC because his trial attorney never moved to suppress the cocaine. State v. Miller,…